Center for Research
and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement
FSU lab Fall 2011
CREATE Principal
Investigators
The CREATE project at FSU has three components: Older
GOMS Toolbox, Cognitive Training Toolbox, and two collaborative projects:
Effective Software Training, and Mobile Monitoring.
The goals of our research and collaborative projects
are to create tools and training techniques to promote cognition and health in
older adults. Research Project 1 (Older
GOMS Toolbox) will use meta-analytic techniques to generate valid information
processing parameters for modeling older adult performance and to create a
toolbox that the engineering and design community can use for GOMS modeling
when designing technology products. We
also aim to improve the reliability of task analysis and modeling with these
tools. We also will extend such models
to predict error rates in addition to task completion times. These tools will also be deployed to model
devices and software in our collaborative projects. Research Project 2 (Cognitive Training
Toolbox) will use simple handheld systems to promote basic cognitive
abilities. The specific aim is to
promote a broad set of abilities --memory, attention, and executive control --
with a well-integrated intervention based on experimental evidence of
efficacy. Collaborative Project 1
(Effective software training) investigates training techniques to promote
efficient use by older novice adults of a simple web-based e-mail client from
partner BigScreenLive. We will evaluate a combined cognitive and
emotional training intervention by incorporating stress reduction techniques
developed in CREATE II to aid learners in combination with
theoretically-motivated training techniques (spaced retrieval, delayed self-tests).
Collaborative Project 2 (Mobile monitoring) assesses the
privacy/confidentiality preferences and acceptability/comfort of a wrist-worn
wireless monitoring device designed for community-dwelling older adults by
partner AFrame Digital. The device registers and transmits continuous
vital sign data (e.g., blood pressure, pulse/ox, fall detection). Experimental studies will determine what type
of reporting interface enables older adults to make rapid and accurate evaluations
of health status. The goals are to
improve functionality and acceptability of mobile monitoring devices for older
healthcare users. We will also be
contributing to theory about cognition and aging through the use of our
cross-site cognitive assessment battery and our participation in the cross-site
field trial testing a personalized reminder information and social management
system (PRISM).
To learn more about CREATE and access reprints and
preprints from our research see: http://www.create-center.org
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modified 2011/11/16
